US Politics

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio November 6, 2026
06 Nov 2026
In this week’s segment, we hear about the Southern Human Rights Organizers Conference, which will be held in Jackson, Mississippi, in December. But we begin with an analysis of the Michigan Senate…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Abdul El-Sayed's Senate Victory in Michigan
06 Nov 2026
Abayomi Azikiwe is editor of the Pan-African Newswire and a Detroit-based activist. Abdul El-Sayed won his election and will represent Michigan as a United States senator. He defied the Democratic…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
An Electoral Victory Is Not the Defeat of Fascism: A Black Radical Perspective on the Democratic Party's Midterm Victories
04 Nov 2026
Democratic victories are a setback for Trump and the Republican Party, but not a defeat of the forces driving fascism.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
AIPAC Going Dark Sheds New Light on the Derelictions of the Democrat Party
04 Nov 2026
AIPAC's decision to stop directly endorsing and funding candidates is merely a shift to dark money. Democratic Party leaders are completely in sync with AIPAC's goals and will not cut them out of…
Brad Reed
‘Oligarchy Is on the Ballot’: Reports Uncover Unprecedented Sums Ultrarich Spent to Buy 2026 Midterms
04 Nov 2026
“In a democracy, it’s supposed to be one person, one vote, and the more one person can influence, the less egalitarian our system becomes,” said one expert.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
U.S. Liberal Media Literacy Guide: Wealthy People
28 Oct 2026
The media uses vague language to protect billionaires from judgment and pressures people to pursue change through polite, respectable channels. The result is that readers become spectators of…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Exorcising AI: The Ghost in the Machine is white “supremacy,” and it Aims to Haunt the World with Human Redundancy, Neocolonialism, and Militarism
28 Oct 2026
Reflections on Valerie Veatch's documentary, Ghost in the Machine.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Democratic Party Still Hates the Left
21 Oct 2026
The Democratic Party is terrified of even small liberal reforms and will not abide left leaning democrats thwarting their plans for austerity and neoliberal orthodoxy.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Trump Terrorizes Ilhan Omar and Somali Americans in Minnesota
14 Oct 2026
Trump is terrorizing Minnesota’s Somali Americans in a desperate xenophobic and racist appeal to voters in the state’s white farming and mining communities.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Mamdani and the Zionist Shakedown
07 Oct 2026
Progressive candidates rarely remain so after winning public office. Zohran Mamdani is no exception, but his capitulation to New York zionists angered his supporters, and the people he hoped to…